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The Root Cause of Obesity

Since obesity is the great public-health hazard facing the United States, everyone is talking about it.  It's a fun issue to think deeply about, because there are numerous causes of obesity.  Growing up, I was chubby while my two brothers were rail thin.  We were poor, so food was basically rationed.  There was no overeating, and yet I was somehow fat.  Thus, I'd be the last to deny a genetic component to being overweight.   Still, I was the "fat kid" growing up, and there were only one or two of us.  Today 1/3 of kids are fat kids - and they aren't just a little chubby.  Instead, they are obese enough to develop Type II diabetes - which used to only hit adults, and thus was formerly called Adult Onset Diabetes. (!) Clearly there is something beyond "hormones" or "genetics" involved...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).